The role of the commodity markets is to allow producers and users a method to hedge price risk.  Commodity producers/users use exchange traded commodities to lock in prices of items they will bring to market or purchase from the market at some point in the future. Commodities that are popular…

It doesn’t matter if you are an investor that is new to Managed Futures or if you are an investor that’s been investing in Managed Futures for years – you both face the same questions – the primary one being, which CTAs to include as part of your portfolio. Picking…

Notional funding is a concept unique to the Managed Futures industry, whereby an investor is able to leverage their cash investment by taking on additional risk for higher expected returns.  When someone decides to “notionally fund” their managed futures investment, all that means is that they are only investing a…

I remember very clearly when I first decided to get involved in managed futures on a personal level.  I had watched in both amazement and fear as our customers who were involved in these investments would handle the daily and weekly movement with such ease, even as the markets would…